townie,if you looked across the Bradford Road opposite the Green,their was a row of shops.If memory serves, from left to right,Pickerings the chemist,Lentons the butchers,greengrocers,bookies and then Mantons the newsagents.The house involving the coach,was the first property as you turned left into School Lane past Mantons.

townie,if you looked across the Bradford Road opposite the Green,their was a row of shops.If memory serves, from left to right,Pickerings the chemist,Lentons the butchers,greengrocers,bookies and then Mantons the newsagents.The house involving the coach,was the first property as you turned left into School Lane past Mantons.

Thanks Dave I know where your talking about now. Cant remember the coach crash though. There was a barbers there and me and my mate were I think the first in Shard End to have a skin head it was that new my mates mom and dad kept him in until his hair grew.

I remember the barbers,forgot to add to the list.Their was a doorway between the chemist and butchers which led upstairs to a ladies hairdressers on the left,and the barbers on the right.The barber's shop was called Lens.I think he died around 1970 and I don't remember it opening again.When the Pickerings left the chemist,it later became Sonic helmets who supplied motorcycle helmets with microphones.Anne diamond did a feature on them for the local news.I can't find anything on the coach crash as yet,but i'll keep looking.

You are right the barbers was upstairs. I have looked for the coach crash as well and can't find anything either. I worked at the shop come cottage just a few doors down in the 60s as a paper boy and still don't remember a thing.